Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal.

I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.

"They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me."

...that I alone hold the definition of what I am.